Figurative Language
I’m so tired I could sleep for a hundred years.
What is hyperbole?
The cookies smelled like warm vanilla and cinnamon.What is an olfactory image?
What is an olfactory image?
Crash! The books hit the floor all at once.
What is onomatopoeia?
This group of lines sticks together like a poem family.
It’s kind of like a paragraph, but in poetry form.
And after it ends,
we skip a line and start a new one.
What is a stanza?
True or False: All poems have to rhyme.
False
The moon peeked out from behind the clouds.
What is personification?
My feet tingled when I stepped into the icy puddle.
What is a tactile image?
Lucy loves licking lemon lollipops.
What is alliteration?
This sentence
suddenly drops
onto a new line
even though the idea hasn’t finished yet.
What is a line break?
What do we call the person who writes a poem?
What is a poet?
The backyard was a jungle of toys and muddy shoes.
What is a metaphor?
I could hear the bees buzzing and the birds chirping.
What is an auditory image?
The dog barked at the log in the fog.
What is rhyme?
I whisper it once.
I whisper it twice.
I whisper it three times—
“Don’t forget me.”
The same line returns again and again, like a chorus in a song.
What is a refrain?
"One fish, two fish, red fish..."
What fish ends this sentence?
What is blue fish?
His smile was as crooked as a bent paperclip.
What is a simile?
What is a simile?
The watermelon juice dripped down my chin, cool and sweet.
What is a gustatory image?
The sky is wide
The grass is green
I run and hide
So I won’t be seen
What is rhyme scheme?
I believe in peace.
I believe in dreams.
I believe in peanut butter sandwiches.
When the beginning of every line repeats, this is what you call it.
What is anaphora?
This rhyming book by Dr. Seuss starts with a rainy day and ends with a giant mess because of an animal visitor in a striped hat.
What is The Cat in the Hat?
When I saw the test, I knew I was in hot water.
What is an idiom?
The fire painted the night sky with glowing orange light.
What is a visual image?
Love. Love. Love.
What is repetition?
You’ll find me before every poem.
I’m bold and centered
I give you a hint about what’s coming.
Sometimes, I rhyme.
Sometimes, I’m just one word.
What is the title?
This type of poem has only three lines, follows a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, and is often about nature.
What is a haiku?